18 November 2019

Riding the Maelstrom

This week we venture back to Arendelle when
Frozen 2 is released, but let’s venture further back, back, over the falls!

Before
there was Frozen Ever After, there was The Maelstrom, a water adventure through
Norway’s Viking and troll-filled past from 1988 to 2014. This image is probably
one of the most recognizable publicity images ever released for The Maelstrom
attraction. It comes from the attraction’s final plunge from the idyllic
countryside, replete with hikers and mountain troll, into the turbulent North
Sea’s host of oil rigs. Aside from the rockwork that calls back to that scene
in the attraction, what I love most here is the reaction on the guests face who
definitely know there being photographed. From the two guys at the very back
who are too cool for this attraction to the gentleman in the front who is
pleading with the camera for his life, as if this is his audition to be in a
slasher film. Whatever your thoughts are of Frozen Ever After’s inclusion in
Norway or its predecessor, The Maelstrom, at least the attractions watercraft
have remained consistent.